Bush Fires Rain Falls
The Macleay Shire Council yesterday decided to make representations to the Government for the urgent release of wire, and wire posts for use…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
74 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 4 of 4
The Bush Fires Homes Menaced at Comara
Telephone lines were down on the Upper Macleay during last week's bush fires, so that news of happenings in the Comara district were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires in Open Banned. Bushfire Danger
The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley on Wednesday announced the reimposition of restrictions on the lighting of fires in the open because…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Moved to Action by Ultimatum of Fire Officer
The Shire Engineer told Council on Friday that the visiting officer from the Board of Fire Commissioners, Mr. Eadie, declared that unless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Manning River National Forest Area Of 2,000 Acres Burnt Over
Fanned by a wind of gale force, a fire broke out in the Manning River National Forest, 20 miles north of Taree, early on Wednesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Willawarrin Bush Fires
Mungay Creek farms were again menaced by bush fires on Wednesday, when a hot westerly wind drove the smouldering remnants of last…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Willawarrin Fire Elwin Lawrence's Pluck
"In your account of the fires on the Upper Macleay you referred to young Stan Chapman as doing much meritorious work. This 13-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Can Bush Fires Be Averted? High Feeling at Armidale
Forestry officers estimated the damage in the recent fires in the Styx forest, on Armidale-Kempsey road, as running into many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Styx Fires Prosecutions May Follow
As a result of investigations into the bush fire which devastated large areas of timber country in the north recently, prosecutions are likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires on Liner Asturias Latest Cables and Telegrams. The "Macleay Argus" is a subscriber to the Australian Associated Press, which provides the overseas news in this issue. in Sydney Harbor Member of Crew Detained Series of Outbreaks Sydney
Five fires in widely separated parts of the ship were discovered aboard the Asturias, 22,000 ton liner, early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires
Reported outbreaks of bush fires last summer totalled 223 and the total estimated damage from these fires was £71,000. In 1944-45 the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Alarm Hoax. Senseless "Joke."
About 6.15 this morning (Friday) the fire alarm siren roused the populace, and the local firemen manned the engine and hurried oH to Eriksson's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Rotel Fire 122 Burned to Death New York
Trapped by fire in a 15-storey hotel in Atlanta, about 122 guests were burned to death or were killed when they plunged to the road early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Bulga Bushfire
The fire raged on like thunder, The weather was sizzling hot; The wind blew trees asunder, Sweat and toll were all we got…
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